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Notable & Quotable

Updated June 6, 2013 1:24 a.m. ET

Samantha Power, President Obama's U.N. ambassador nominee, writing in the New Republic in March 2003:

Why do they hate us? President Bush is right about some America-bashers when he answers, "They hate our freedoms—our freedom of religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom to vote and assemble and disagree with each other." Many terrorists are indeed nihilistic, anti-modern, or threatened by liberal values. But...